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It seemed to me incredible a light as strong as hers could be extinguished so completely without leaving some small glow behind, the way a lamp that’s been switched off will sometimes dimly shine against the darkness. I’d felt certain I would feel her presence somewhere… but I hadn’t.
Susanna Kearsley • The Rose Garden
I want to hate this dead woman. For the way even talking about her twists up my mother’s face. This dead woman, who made my father visit, & have a child, & board a plane that fell into the ocean. I am slow to put the pieces together. I want to hate a dead woman, & her daughter who most likely hates me for making my father leave her in t
... See moreElizabeth Acevedo • Clap When You Land
‘Quietly as a lamb!’
Emily Bronte • Wuthering Heights
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do–
determined to save
the only life you could save.
News Detail | The Cambridge School of Weston
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Jean Hanff Korelitz • The Plot
felt like a racehorse in a world without race-tracks or a champion college footballer suddenly confronted by Wall Street and a business suit,
Sylvia Plath • The Bell Jar (FF Classics)
I couldn’t stand the idea of a woman having to have a single pure life and a man being able to have a double life, one pure and one not.
Sylvia Plath • The Bell Jar (FF Classics)
“You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame,”
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
It is so long before the mind can persuade itself that she whom we saw every day and whose very existence appeared a part of our own can have departed forever—that the brightness of a beloved eye can have been extinguished and the sound of a voice so familiar and dear to the ear can be hushed, never more to be heard.